August 29, 2010

Understanding the Backward Classes of Muslim Society

The issue of reservations for Muslims has been previously discussed on this blog.  


The current issue of EPW (August 21, 2010) carries an article of title above by Mr. P S Krishnansketching the path of backward classes amongst Muslims since inception of Islam in India,  and sets out the possible methods of identification of backward Muslims for the purposes of the reservation.  The article is available here and here on Google Docs.


Earlier, the comment of Supreme Court keeping open the possibility of reservations for Muslims was discussed here.  The Andhra Pradesh case has been discussed here. Developments from West Bengal have been reported here.

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